Description:
This book presents an analysis of classical Russian Populism, shown as an ideological structure within which many positions were possible. Walicki studies the confrontation of Populism and Marxism: changing attitudes toward Marxism in the Populist milieu and the controversy between Populists and Marxists over the future of Russia.
The Controversy over Capitalism, available here in paper for the first time, reinterprets the ideology of Russian Populism. Andrzej Walicki argues that Populism is a reaction to the development of capitalism in Russia and a response to the capitalist economy and socialist ideologies of the West.
Brief description:
Andrzej Walicki was the O'Neill Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Legal Philosophies of Russian Liberalism, Philosophy and Romantic Nationalism: The Case of Poland, and numerous other books.
Review Quotes:
"The author canvasses Tkachev's polemic with Engels; the contrast between the views of Marx and Engels on the future course of Russia, Russian Populism, the peasant commune, et al.; their views on Russia's potential role as the spark igniting European revolution; the influence of the classical Russian Populists on Marx's and Engel's attitudes toward Russia." --The Russian Review